The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23

rushing out Of work, which MEANS ont Of wages,
on tie eve and, alas, in the depth of cruel mid
winters For the rich and WELT to do this means
hindrance. fannoyance vexation. loss Of profit
To the poor, the ignorant. the hard working
wives and Innocent children it added
weight already heavy burden; it meana
deprivation il not starvation il means illness.
prostration and despair.
Is there no way for orr brethren to learn tho
existence of blank wall but by beating out
their brains against i'll The disconrented, the
envious, the aggrieved even though their griev.
ance be imaginary and their discomfort based
error, the poverty-strcken. even though theil
constitute great mass of humanity too male-
able to the hand of the brawling hysteric idlers
VINO fatten upon the substance OF the toilers and
strive TO disguise their real identity under the
high.sounding name Of Anarchists
Whatever or necessity anarchy may plead for
Its existence in other countries. in this country
1t mas no excuse for being It's chief victims
are honest and worthy, though not wide visioned
widely cultured ano women who be.
come the dangerous classes not from evil in
tent, but from misapprehension Of the situation.
Is any sufficient attempt made to enlighteE
them, to demonstrate to their intelligence that
seeming inequalities strike general average
and that it is now as it was in the DAYS of Juius
Caesar, and will be when the last Kaiser of them
all shall have laid low his uncrowned head:
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars.
But in ourselves that we are underings,
And that even as underlings we may be happier
than most kings
certain army Of laborers are reported t.
i0leuoSS
a great city, because they receiving only IL
cents hour. while they demand 20, for
skilled labor. to save their wives and children
from starvation.
OF the economical justice Of their demands
do not know l am ignorant of the conditooS
which must decide the question. But am liv-
ing, have lived all my life. and all the genera
tions of my fathers in this country have lived In
q community where the rate Of wages has never
been SO high as II cents hour for unskiiled
lsbor. In that community the clergyman, edu-
Gated in
college and study, academy and theological sem
mary, has served his people year after year for
among the Fights and mines: and while doing
this he lives not only without starvation. but in
refinement and elegance Let me repeat and
enforce that mon intellectually, classically as
well educated as the Vanderbits and the Astors,
have. within the memory of thousands still in
LIES prime and vigor. existed and worked on a
salary of 5000 year-have not only existed in
comfort but have maintained modest ele-
gance; have sent sons to college; family
tn, thai Il know S"oa and ana am connected with By
six sons to college, have sent daughters to
boarding-school and have furnished them with
the appliances of education at homo. In such
community one family with which am proud
to be connected by ties OF blood and love was
reared by father who merrily but uniformly
maintained that if he could have clsared a
quarter of q dollar day through life he would
have been q rich man-was reared to education,
to responsibility, to independence and high
stations in the Republics; and son or daughter
found in any station nobler pride. a sturdier
independence laughter scorn of dependence
and debt. more unbending aristocracy OF feel
ing and q greater gentleness of bearing than
they had seen from their earliest consciousness
in their own father at home. In this commun-
ity men work for q dollar and dollar and a
quarter day, for 10 and 124 cents an hour, and
are "a amply fed, warmly clothed, com
fortably housed. well endowed with self
respect and the respect OF their neighbors
Leland Stanford Philip Armour. And this
has been true through hard times and soft
times, through years when provisions-when
most OF the necessities OF Nfe-have been far
more expensive than now.
So that when hear men talk of starving on
cents an hour, feel that they belong
to race with which ! am unacquaintad Rich
men know in plenty. who hold thousands, and
even millions. of dollars worth of bonds. stocks,
houses and rich men know in plenty
whose wealth Is cottage and q garden, bench
or FORGE stout hands and sturdy brains and
cheerful hearts; capitalists whose bonanza is
pen, 8 pulpit, q surveyors chain, eye for fig
ures, waxing fat on a dollar day, on City dollars
a month. on thousand dollars year, and calling
dollar and seventy cents day have not known.
and therefore do not presume ignorantly to
discuss their circumstances.
am not saying that dollar q day is enough
better than that But am saying what know,
in saying that there wide spaces in this
country where q dollar day is not starvation,
is not barbarism, is not-worse than all else
freely admit. nay, / am ready to
proclaim, that the moro money I command the
happier / am, and that this ought to be the
case with every human being; that M ney is
3 means of grace and every added penny oughs
to bring its owner nearer to the kingdom OF
heaven. But wish, on the other SIDE, to main
tain that it is not the kingdom Of heaven whoss
doors are barred with gold and open but to gold
IN keys, for have lived there and know
GAIL HAMILTON.
Nothing better can be applied to a severe cut